reflects the balanced response, and i've shown myself willing to make tough decisions when it comes to government spending. because despite my reputation -- i think there are efficiencies that can be gained, some programs used to work and just don't work now, as a consequence with working with democrats and republicans last year we were able to cut over a trillion of spending. the largest cut, by the way, in discretionary spending in history. so we're prepared to make some tough decisions when it came tough to -- when you look at what's needed for us to stabilize our budget, stabilize our deficit to gdp ratio, then every credible will follow. we can't just do it on spending cuts. there has to be a balanced approach in which we also are bringing -- partly because our revenue levels are as low as they've been -- >>> we're trying to decide if this is worth sticking with. it's clearly not the president's mike that is turned on. you can sort of hear what he's saying, but not very well. as he makes headlines we'll bring them to you. so we'll get to some reas is lynn jenkins, republican tiff from kansas